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( Updated: 01/22/2014 )

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Protestors from an anti-fracking group wait for the start of a demonstration outside EU headquarters in Brussels. The European Commission proposed a framework for climate and energy policies beyond 2020 and up to 2030. Virginia Mayo/AP

An anti-government protester is seen between flags as his group marches through central Bangkok, Thailand. A pro-government leader was shot and wounded in Thailand's northeast, a stronghold of Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra. The government issued the 60-day emergency decree, handing security agencies wide powers to detain suspects, impose a curfew and limit gatherings. Damir Sagolj/Reuters

Sri Lanka's traditional dancers look on while waiting for the arrival of Maldives President Abdulla Yameen at the Sri Lanka's Presidential Secretariat in Colombo. Dinuka Liyanawatte/Reuters

Participants take a break between sessions during the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos, Switzerland. Ruben Sprich/Reuters

Jim Club performs with a tiger during the Award Gala evening of the 38th International Circus Festival of Monte Carlo in Monaco, Jan. 21st. Eric Gaillard/AP

The sun illuminates windblown snow as a man walks under elevated train tracks in Philadelphia. A winter storm stretched from Kentucky to New England and hit hardest along the heavily populated Interstate 95 corridor between Philadelphia and Boston. Matt Rourke/AP

A pro-European protester throws a Molotov cocktail towards riot police during clashes in Kiev, Ukraine. Prime Minister Mykola Azarov said that anti-government protests had brought 'terrorists' on to the streets and warned that all 'criminal actions' would be punished. Vasily Fedosenko/Reuters

A man sits near graffiti, depicting a youth who was killed in the 2011 Egypt uprising, along Mohamed Mahmoud Street in Tahrir Square in Cairo, Egypt. Amr Abdallah Dalsh/Reuters

People sit in a rubber boat operated by volunteers as they cross through a flooded street in Jakarta, Indonesia. Seasonal rains and high tides in recent days have caused widespread flooding across much of Indonesia, an archipelago of more than 17,000 islands that's home to 240 million people. Dita Alangkara/AP

Purdue University students, faculty, family and friends gather at the steps of Hovde Hall for a vigil for a teaching assistant who was fatally shot on campus at Purdue University Jan. 21st in West Lafayette, Ind. The victim was identified as Andrew Boldt, 21, a senior in electrical engineering from Wisconsin who lived on campus, according to Purdue. Michael Heinz/The Journal & Courier/AP

A supporter, (c.) of Xu Zhiyong is detained by policemen near the Beijing's No. 1 Intermediate People's Court, where legal scholar and founder of the New Citizens movement, Xu, stands trial for disrupting public order. The prominent activist has led a grassroots campaign demanding a fairer society and official accountability to better fight corruption. Andy Wong/AP

People gather their belongings on a truck during a road repatriation to Chad in the capital Bangui. Central African Republic's new interim president said on Tuesday she would hold talks with armed groups in an effort to restore order to the former French colony, where at least seven more people were killed in sectarian violence in the north. Siegfried Modola/Reuters

In New Delhi, India, an artist from the northeast state of Arunachal Pradesh wears a traditional costume during a press preview presenting various native cultures. The displays will be part of the Indian Republic Day parade on Jan. 26th. Saurabh Das/AP

Masked Sunni Muslim gunmen take up positions with their weapons during clashes with Iraqi security forces outside the city of Falluja, west of Baghdad, January 21st. Al Qaeda militants and their local allies seized control January 1st, exploiting resentment among minority Sunnis who accuse the government of discriminating against the once-dominant community. Reuters

Members of movement Oxford Committee for Famine Relief (Oxfam) put white roses on symbolic gravestones, on the opening day of the Geneva II peace talks on Syria, in Montreux, Switzerland. Representatives of Syrian President Bashar Assad, a divided opposition, world powers and regional bodies started the peace conference. Salvatore Di Nolfi/Keystone/AP

Women followers of the banned Islamic-oriented Hizb Al-Tahrir take part in a demonstration in front of the Syrian embassy to condemn the peace talks in Switzerland between the Syrian government and the opposition, in Amman, Jordan. The white and black flags Arabic read 'there is No God but Allah and Muhammad is his messenger.' Mohammad Hannon/AP

A man stands in front of a showcase with sixty shoes of Holocaust victims in the exhibition in the Military History Museum in Dresden in Dresden, eastern Germany. The exhibition 'Shoes of the Dead - Dresden and the Shoah' is in remembrance of Jewish citizens who were transported from Dresden’s train stations to the Nazi concentration camps. Jens Meyer/AP

Palestinians look at the scene of an Israeli air strike in Beit Hanoun, in the northern Gaza Strip. Israel killed two Gaza gunmen in an air strike, blaming one of them for firing rockets across the border during former Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's funeral last week. Islamic Jihad claimed one man, Ahmed Al-Za'anin, as its own, without immediately commenting on the other's affiliation. Suhaib Salem/Reuters

African migrants cover their mouths with tape during a protest in front of the US embassy demanding asylum and work rights from the Israeli government in Tel Aviv, Israel. About 60,000 African migrants, mostly from Sudan and Eritrea, have trekked through Egypt and other Muslim countries to reach Israel in recent years. Some are fleeing violence or oppression while others are seeking better economic opportunities. Oded Balilty/AP

Women supporters of political party Pakistan People's Party (PPP) chant slogans during a protest to condemn Tuesday's killings of three polio vaccination workers, in Karachi. Police arrested more than 100 suspects after three polio eradication workers, including two women, were shot dead by armed men on motorcycles during a vaccination drive in Qayyumabad, eastern Karachi, local media reported. Akhtar Soomro/Reuters

A six and a half month old koala joey is held by a zookeeper whilst two adults watch it, before being weighed for the first time, at Duisburg Zoo in Germany. The female koala has not yet been named and the zoo is asking fans to vote for a name on a social networking site. Frank Augstein/AP

Passengers disembark from the Aurora Australis in Hobart, Australia, following their rescue from a ship trapped in ice in the Antarctic. The ship rescued 52 passengers with the help of a helicopter from a Chinese ship on Jan. 2, 2014 after the Russian icebreaker Akademik Shokalskiy became trapped in ice-clogged Commonwealth Bay on Christmas Eve 2013. Rob Blakers/AAP/AP

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Hardline Islamist insurgents, including the Al Qaeda-linked Nusra Front, now control a second Syrian province after Raqqa, the stronghold of the Islamic State group. But ISIS isn't allied with the Islamists who tookover Idlib.

ByMariam Karouny, ReutersMarch 28, 2015

Islamist groups including Al Qaeda's Nusra Front - but not ISIS - have seized the city of Idlib for the first time in Syria's civil war, fighters and a monitoring group said on Saturday.